I would say do what you need to do to be comfortable.

In my life, asking questions has never been a bad thing or something to avoid. I always believed that if my curiosity alienates or threatens another person, their reaction would speak volumes to me about them. Might even raise a warning flag or two. hahaha

But i've always been perceived as a person who asks when i'm curious about anything. My teachers often reflected that i needed to stop asking question in my report cards in elem and HS. I never much cared what they said either. LLOL

Isn't that what a site like this assists in doing? That's what I like about it. Nobody has to waste time learning after the fact, what can be 'weeded out' before.

Even better, if like me, the primary cause is meeting stimulating people without future intimacy possibilities as a qualifier, meeting people and learning are good enough reasons all by themselves. That I prefer women can, but doesn't necessarily require making a good social friendship any more than it is.

If meeting an interesting woman off the Internet, one of the first things to suggest will be this site.

That's kind of what the internet is. Doing it in person kind of seems like a formal interview for a job or being at a doctors office or something like that. If you are face to face then why not just talk about all that stuff? You can talk about that stuff through the date. So it takes 2 hours instead of 10 minutes. Isn't that part of the "fun" (anxiety) of being on a date?

That makes sense, that way there are less surprises

You're so romantic.